Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Appalling losses a r e reported to have been inflicted upon the Russian forces by Von Hinderburg’s driving army sweeping on to the Polish capital of Warsaw'. Standing out prominently from among the claims and counter claims of the allies and Germans of success won or attacks repulsed on the battle line in Flanders and in France is the German admission of the French assertion that the Germans have lost a trench to the southeast of Bethune. This trench previously had been the scene of bitter contests, the French having captured it December 17 and lost it the following day, the Germans having held it since. As to the fighting elsewhere along the western front, each of the contending sides records in its official statement advances by its forces or attacks of the enemy repulsed. “In Poland the Russians are preparing strong positions near Rawa and Nida. We are attacking them everywhere,” says the German official report of the situation in the east. Petrograd says nothing of the fighting on the right bank of the Vistula, but declares that a number of fierce encounters have taken place on the front of the Rzura and Rawka rivers, westward from Warsaw. On the Bzura two German companies are declared to have been annihilated. Petrograd claims also to have repulsed another attempted sortie from Premysl and to have captured a large number of Austrians. Austria reports the appearance of strong Russian forces in Galicia, but declares that in the Carpathians attacks by the Russians have been repulsed; that the Austrian troops have advanced to Tuchow, south of Tarnow, and that a great battle is developing north of Lupkow Pass. The German emperor, having recovered from his recent illness, according to an announcement from headquarters at Berlin, has returned to the front. The fact that the emperor has regained his health was indicated in a previous dispatch, which said that he had visited the hospital at Potsdam. From Athens it is reported that the allied fleet has bombarded the inner forts of the Dardanelles, but no details of the bombardment are given. Prince Von Buelow, the former Imperial German Chancellor and now ambassador to Italy, has been received with great cordiality at Rome by King Victor Emmanuel. The Germans are reported to have evacuated Dixmude.